With a Masters of Law in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Wayne Plenert has been a Mediator for over 25 years in the Peace River area and elsewhere.
Wayne is a mediator listed by the British Columbia Mediator Roster, and is on their Board of Directors. He is also qualified as a Family Law Mediator under the Law Society of British Columbia rules and has been since 1985. Wayne has also mediated in Alberta and the Yukon.
Wayne has mediated in hundreds of cases,from commercial to family to personal injury, estate planning to buy-sell agreements. He taught Conflict Resolution at Menno Simons College on the campus of the University of Winnipeg, and has led workshops in healthy conflict for various institutions.
Peacebuilder Mediation provides four types of services...
Peacemaking
Peacemaking is helping people resolve immediate or short term disputes.
Wayne is involved in about 90 mediations per year. Family mediations help people to where they have a Separation Agreement. This sets out their roadmap to their future.
The non-family cases included questions of workers' compensation, human rights, personal injury, business disputes, workplace and academic disputes. It allows participants to get resolution to lawsuits, conflicts in their workplace or organization.
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Peacekeeping
Peacekeeping is helping groups create an environment in which peace can develop and in which organizations can create genuine leaders.
The practice offers workshops on leadership, where issues for organizations become transformative opportunities through the creation of healthy processes and structures. It also offers training for lawyers and personal injury adjusters, and leadership of meetings for a variety of groups including municipalities and First Nations.
It also means guiding organizations out of crisis to where they can make major policy decisions in areas where they have been stalemated or in serious conflict.
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Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding is helping individuals and groups look at long term issues of organization and leadership.
The practice included acting as trustee for a First Nations/ Metis group in creating and developing a community centre and teaching an interpersonal conflict course at Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, BC.
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Volunteer Work
In addition, Wayne is vice chair and an enthusiastic volunteer for Mediate BC.
(see his bio at http://www.mediatebc.com/Find-a-Mediator/Mediator-Profile.aspx?RosterTypeId=1&PracticeAreaId=0&LanguageId=0&CulturalExperienceId=0&ServiceRegionId=0&Location=All&Keyword=plenert&MediatorId=73)
He has provided pro bono mediations, and is an active member and elder at Northgate MB Church, where he is involved in such projects as an annual 10,000 Villages sale.
Wayne is a director of the Lake View Credit Union.
Wayne has prepared and offered workshops in different parts of the province on leadership, conflicts and conflict transformation and mediation. Wayne enjoys creating and presenting courses and workshops.
Active in sports as well, he played basketball in the World Masters Games in the summer of 2005.
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